Résidence de création à Saint-Benoit
Alliance Française is playing host to a performance by the Cirquons Flex Company in the Durban University of Technology, Courtyard Theatre in Durban at 7 pm on Thursday, September 15. Continue reading
Nadia Hashimi. PHOTO: Chris Carter Photography
NADIA Hashimi, the international best-selling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When The Moon Is Low, will be in Pietermaritzburg on Monday, September 12 to launch her latest novel, A House Without Windows.
The event, during which Hashimi will be in discussion with Margaret von Klemperer, former books editor of The Witness, at Exclusive Books in the Liberty Midlands Mall, at 5.30 pm for 6 pm.
If you are interested in attending the launch, please RSVP to 033 342 2074 or midlands@exclusivebooks.co.za. Continue reading
Songezo Mcilizeli presents Audition.
Drama for Life is bringing critical, bold theatre into the public domain through its 9th annual Drama for Life Sex Actually Festival.
Hosted at Wits University, the festival is a cross-community arts education, activism and therapeutic intervention, which is curated in a way that allows arts practitioners and audience members to holistically engage with and interrogate the complexities surrounding themes of sex, sexuality, relationships, culture, gender, HIV and sexual reproductive health; within human rights and social justice discourse. Continue reading
Ebenhaezer Dibakwane
He may be the new kid on the block but Ebenhaezer Dibakwane has proven to already be a firm favourite amongst his peers when he walked away with the coveted Newcomer Award at the 6th annual Savanna Comic’s Choice Awards at the Teatro at Montecasino. Continue reading
Tumi Morake
It’s not an easy feat going up against talented comedians like Carvin Goldstone, Loyiso Gola, Mashabela Galane and Skhumba Hlophe – but Tumi Morake, South Africa’s “First Lady of Comedy”, made history by being the first ever female to be crowned ‘Comic of the Year’ at the 6th annual Savanna Comic’s Choice Awards. Continue reading
The Rhumbelow Theatres in Durban and Pietermaritzburg will be hosting the Creedance Clearwater Revival Tribute, featuring The Black Lapels – Rob Warren on guitar and vocals, Garth Warren on bass and backing vocal, Gareth Gale on sticks and Luke Wyngaard on lead guitar and support vocals, from September 9 to 11, September 23-25 and on October 9. Continue reading
The Barnyard Theatre at Gateway in Umhlanga will be hosting a performance by Jesse Clegg for the first time on Friday, September 9. When he steps onto the stage he will be following in his dad, Johnny Clegg’s footsteps. Clegg senior performed five sold-out shows at the popular mall venue in 2015. Continue reading
THE Frank Paco Art Ensemble, in association with iSupport Music Business, is performing in Durban as part of a tour marking the release of the the album New Horizons.
The tour is sponsored by Prohelvetia Mobility Fund and the ensemble features Buddy Wells on saxophone, Blake Hellaby on keyboards, the Durban-based Mozambican bassist Ildo Nandja and Frank Paco on drums and vocals. Continue reading
RUNNING until October 23 at the Market Photo Workshop Gallery in Johannesburg, is Martyrs, Saints, and Sell-Outs, a group exhibition featuring anti-apartheid photographers Adil Bradlow, Benny Gool, and Zubeida Vallie.
The exhibition is being hosted by the Market Photo Workshop, in partnership with the Centre for Curating the Archive, at the University of Cape Town. Continue reading
Running from September 10 – 29 at artSPACE durban, 3 Millar Road, Durban is Corné Eksteen’s exhibition Assimilation.
Assimilation is traditionally defined as the process by which a person or persons acquire the social and psychological characteristics of a group. However within the social dynamics of the post-information age, the factors that define a group, a culture, even a national identity has much wider reach and influence.
We live in a hyper-connected society where we are willingly submitting to the values and opinions of the group, where our sense of personal identity and cultural values are subject to public scrutiny and constant evaluation.
Our traditional sense of community has been replaced by a “hive-mind” mentality that doesn’t tolerate or embrace alternative opinions, opposition and sub-cultures.
Through the use of portraiture the Eksteen’s explore how our own sense of personal and cultural identity is being subjected to the expectations, values and norms presented by the group/collective/“hive-mind”.
Through the creation of new archetypes/stereotypes it will explore the undermining of individuality, otherness, sub-cultures and traditional culture through group pressure towards a homogeneous culture and world view.
The gallery is open from 10 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday and from 10 am to 1 pm on Saturday. Inquiries: 031 312 0793.
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